No climate for cricket: how global warming is putting the heat on NZ’s summer game
Jan 04, 2024 04:41 am UTC| Sports
The recently concluded mens Cricket World Cup in India reached record audiences. But there was one thing the organisers did not want those viewers to see (other than Indias defeat by Australia in the final): crickets own...
Dec 13, 2023 14:22 pm UTC| Nature
Perilously situated between rising sea levels and pressures from upstream lie coastal river deltas and their roughly half a billion inhabitants. These regions have played an important role in societal development since the...
How to assess the carbon footprint of a war
Dec 13, 2023 08:16 am UTC| Economy
We know that war is bad for the environment, with toxic chemicals left polluting the soil and water for decades after fighting ceases. Much less obvious are the carbon emissions from armed conflicts and their long-term...
The 7 charts that show Australians struggling as saving falls to near zero
Dec 07, 2023 08:05 am UTC| Economy
The national accounts released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show economic growth slid to a measly 0.2% in the last quarter. Thats well down from a low 0.4% in the June quarter. Of course, economic...
COP28: South Africa pioneered plans to transition to renewable energy – what went wrong
Dec 07, 2023 08:03 am UTC| Economy
South Africas experience in piloting a new type of climate finance vehicle can inform debates about how to fund a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Two years ago at COP26, South Africa piloted the...
We're in an El Niño – so why has Australia been so wet?
Dec 05, 2023 09:20 am UTC| Nature
After three La Niña summers many of us would have been expecting much hotter and drier conditions this spring and summer after the arrival of El Niño. Instead, in many parts of eastern Australia its rained...
COP28: with a ‘loss and damage’ fund in place, protecting climate refugees is more urgent than ever
Dec 05, 2023 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
It has taken decades, but the complex and increasingly urgent issue of climate mobility has gradually become central to international climate negotiations. At the COP28 summit currently taking place in Dubai, there are...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects